The Washington critic., 1887-07-27
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, JULY 81, 1887.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The majority Of the coke strikers have
resumed work aud the Pinkerton detectives
viii leave within few days.
William X. Jlemmons. colored preacher,
died at Atlanta, Ga, yesterday, OF a mystic
riously inflicted gunshot wound.
Trouble among the Knights OF Labor at
Augusta, Ga, developed yesterday. The
district master workman was deposed.
Goldstein & Rosenwater, dry goo1s,
Cairo, ILL.,, have failed. Liabilities are re-
ported at s3S,O0O; preferred creditors, s2i,-
The winning horses at Monmouth Park,
o ~ j., yesterday, were Chocktnw, Belinda,
Hanover, Lady Primrose, Florence Il. aud
Mentmore.
Fire in the Warner block, In Minneapolis,
yesterday, caused a loss OF $50, 600. Several
iremen were badly injured, Oliver A.
Burnes fatally.
The will OF the late Wm Glenn OF Gin
cinDati, makes public bequests, mostly for
religious and educational organizations,
amounting to $4,000.
j. NJ. Garrison has been arrested at
Huntsville, Ala, for the murder OF Miles
johnson and Deputy Sheriff Fulgham, In
Morgan County, In 1870.
The schedules OF Jonas schaenger, i'm
porter Of musical instruments, New York,
show liabilities Of sos, ,445; nominal assets,
$67,240; actual assets, $33,36S.
George II. Patch, military editor OF the
Boston Globe and ex'commander OF the de-
partment Of Massachusetts,, q. A. r., died
yesterday after a brief attack Of pneumonia.
Gardner & Dudley, hats, 1853 Greene
street, New York, made an assignment yes
terday for the benefit OF creditors to Henry
B. Hathaway, prefeTriDg the Ninth National
Bank for $4,000.
4, q a.. A., - ~
Darlington, Mass, and vicinity Is even
greater than at first reported. The only
person known to have been drowned was o
Mr.. Drnm Of Careyville.
Edward d. Fox, secretary to Governor
Green, was drugged In a bar-room at New
ark, N. j., Monday night and robbed Of a
valuable gold watch which had been pre-
eented to him by six ex Governors Of the
State.
Fileman, the Hungarian who was arrested
In New York charged with having embez'
zled q large sum Of money from his govern
ment, yesterday waived examination and
agreed to return to Austria without extradl.
tion papers.
Virginia Hudson, tho seven year old
colored child who murdered the one-yearold
infant Of a colored neighbor in Greenyille
County, 8. G., Monday, also tried to murder
another colored child of four years, but the
intended victim escaped.
Mr.. Samuel N. Brooks OF Hyde, England,
the father Of Hugh Maxwell Brooks, alias
Walter II. Lenox Maxwell, the famous
chloroformer Of G. Arthur Preller, will ar
rive In st. Louis to-day to make last effort
to save his son from the gallows.
A strike is in progress on the New Mexico,
Arizona and Sonora Railroad. The brake
men refused to go out with the trains on ac-
count Of orders compelling the men to make
up their own trains In the Nogales yard.
The conductors also refused to take trains
out.
A special from Fort Worth, Texas, refer
ring to the failure Of the cattle firms In that
State, says that the total Indebtedness Is
estimated at but $550,OO0 and the assets
Sl,1l5,000. The cause Of the failure is con-
sidered TO be over-buying and depressed
market.
The Colombian Government has granted
to the Central and South American Tele-
graph Company authority to establish and
operate telegraph line across the Isthmus
OF Panama, and to extend its cables from
Colon along the Atlantic coast Of South
America.
Unknown parties Monday night entered
the weaver-rOom Of the large cotton mill Of
the Manville Company a! sManville, r: l..
rolls ruined some five thousand yards o.
fancy goods on the looms. The mill wal
recently the scene Of weavers' strike.
The Tempo (newspaper) Of the City o
Mexico has resumed publication, afte
eleven days suspension. The Tiemp,
thanks the family Of the late Presden
Juarez for intervention In behalf Of its im
prisoned staff. The charge was that thu
paper had made itself liable to civil ant
criminal proceedings by. having libelousl.
attacked the memory of JuareZ. Edltor-ln
Chief Agueros is still in prison.
Mrs. Joseph Bennett, wealthy lady o
Wichita, Kansas, was probably fatal.
stabbed Monday night by her step-daughter
McllIe Bennett, OF Hot Springs, Arkansas
Miss Bennett is daughter OF Bennett b,
his first wife, and upon her coming Il
Wichita Mrs. Bennett refused her admis
sion to the house. Miss Bennett, accom-
panied by young man, drove up to tn
house Monday night, and upon Mrs. Ben
nett coming to the door, drew a knife ant
stabbed her twenty times IN the breast, fac
and arms.